REPRESENTATIVES of businesses in Deane Road and Derby Street/St Helens Road, Bolton, are being invited to a meeting on Monday. It will discuss ways in which more than £2 million can be best used to regenerate these areas of Deane, Derby and Daubhill.
A "WALK on the wet side" by Bolton business banking manager Ross Bullock looks to have raised an incredible £25,000 for charity. Mr Bullock, aged 46, covered 150 miles in nine days alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. He raised about £12,500 - an
THE booming markets in central and eastern Europe will be under the spotlight at the next meeting of the Bolton Bury Export Club. Secrets of success will be imparted at the event on June 25 through workshops conducted by Department of Trade and Industry
"GUARDIAN Angel" Mary Roderick has been awarded a top award after rescuing a stranger's dog at Manchester Airport. The 34-year-old veterinary nurse from Brookland Grove, Smithills, stepped in to help a pensioner who had sold her home and was ready to
BOLTON'S pedal pushing extravaganza which has attracted crowds to the town for the last 18 summers is again under threat. This year's sponsor for the Mini Le Mans event has pulled out with just weeks to go before the major event. Organisers Bolton Round
A BOLTON dog owner whose Staffordshire Bull Terrier faces the death sentence, will battle next week to save his pet's life in London's High Court. Robert Hogg's pedigree terrier, Zach, was ordered to be destroyed by Bolton magistrates in January 1996
LITTLE Lever has been slammed as "Litter Lever" by one disgusted resident. Alice More, of Victory Road, Little Lever, says her regular walks around the village are constantly ruined by pockets of litter. Mrs More said: "Basically the litter problem is
FIGURES showing the Raikes Lane incinerator was spewing out emissions nearly three times its authorised limit were kept secret for 15 months. The Government's Environment Agency ordered monitoring to be carried out at the waste burner in January 1996
f+bs=10os=9o The medal is one of two which has been awarded by the town council this week for the first time. The first was to Jack Prescott for his work with Horwich Harriers. Like Mr Prescott, Mrs Gibbons had no idea she was to receive the award. When
ROYAL Mail's two bulk mail distribution centres in Bolton are being moved out of the town to a new 'super centre' in Crewe. The operations at Wingates Industrial Estate in Westhoughton, and in Lostock, will be shut down but the 300 people who work in
SIR: I would like to nominate as 'Rat of the Week' the sneaky thief who stole my handbag from my car, parked six feet away from me as I put flowers on my little grandson's grave in Heaton Cemetery on Sunday, June 1. I hope this despicable thief rots in
FARNWORTH speed merchant Wayne Bradley was the fastest thing on two wheels at the TT Races. The 40-year-old clocked a top speed of 123.8mph to win the 200m seafront Ramsay Sprint for the fourth time in the Isle of Man where he picked up two more first
LEIGH have major injury problems ahead of Sunday's crucial promotion battle with table-toppers Rochdale Hornets. Coach Keith Latham has been forced to delay final team selection until tomorrow with half a dozen players still on the treatment table. Almost
SIR: On Sunday, June 15, sons and daughters throughout the country will give cards and gifts on Father's Day. If, like me Father's Day has become a day of remembrance please consider marking that day by making a special gift to the Imperial Cancer Research
SIR: Vision Aid, the Bolton based charity supporting blind and visually impaired children would once again appeal to your readers for their support and generosity on the occasion of the Vision Aid Street Collection, which will take place in the Bolton
I love to write my poems, just ordinary rhymes, But then I'm just an ordinary type. I enjoy others' verses, about flowers and sunny days, But sometimes feel my lines are only 'tripe'. But still I hope they raise a smile, from someone feeling low, As many
SMITHILLS School's championship-winning senior brass band musicians are on the crest of an air wave. They have become the first school brass band in the country to record for the BBC Radio 2 programme, 'Listen to the Band', presented every week by Frank
SUPERMARKET shoppers have been reaping the benefits of customer bonus schemes for the last few months. And now loyal regulars at a Bolton pub can cash in on the latest version of the bonus card phenomenon. Drinkers at the Lostock Arms on Lostock Junction
MORE than £500,000 is being spent transforming one of Bolton's old people's homes into a community care centre. The development at Lillian Hamer House, Deane Road, is due to open at the end of the year. The ambitious project is aimed at catering for the
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 6, 1972 A TOTAL of 468 miners are feared dead in a Rhodesia pit disaster today. A spokesman at the Wankie colliery said there had been a 'major underground explosion' at the mine, about 200 miles north of Bulawayo
DETECTIVES are hunting a PENSIONER who is conning the elderly in Bolton. Officers interviewing victims of the trickster were stunned when they described the thief as a woman - in her late 60s or early 70s. Two sisters both fell victim to the scam when
LANCASHIRE coach Dav Whatmore described the Taunton pitch as "sub-standard" after his side collapsed to a humiliating defeat inside two days against Somerset. The pitch was not given a bad report by umpires Jack Bond and Nigel Plews but Whatmore said:
CORONATION Street's Sue Nicholls (Audrey Roberts), will be in town next week joining Bolton's new 'first lady' Glynis Birch in a campaign to highlight the crippling disease, Lupus. The Street star will be putting her weight behind the opening of a new
SIR: I am pleased to see our new local MP Ruth Kelly is getting her priorities right. After producing her first off-spring, she is now fighting for a House of Commons creche in which to leave him every day. Shouldn't this young lady have thought twice
TERRY O'Connor is rated very doubtful to play in Wigan's World Club Championship opener against Canterbury Bulldogs on Monday. The prop-forward, whose consistent performances made him an ever-present last season, is still suffering from an ankle ligament
SIR: Casually browsing through a large town centre shop, I noticed a large display of BWFC videos. Eagerly seeking the traditional end of season goals compilation. I found a bundle of seven or eight videos, each carrying highlights of about six games
SIR: I refer to the report 'CSA Hit Dad etc' (BEN, June 3). I understood the CSA was set up to catch errant fathers who abandon their responsibilities to their families, your paper even reported as much recently. The evidence from this latest article
VOLUNTEERS are needed to "act naturally" on special photographs promoting Bolton's Social Services. The customer services department at Bolton Town Hall are putting together information booklets on local services and would like people of all ages to pose
SPORTS lovers are being urged to get their skates on for a new craze coming to Bury. Roller Hockey sessions are to be staged at Bury's Castle Leisure Centre between 4.15pm and 5.45pm from Saturday June 14. People taking part must bring their own skates
A MECHANIC with the "fourth emergency service" had to call out the fire brigade after his AA van caught fire. The man was attending a call on Plodder Lane, Farnworth when the engine started burning yesterday. As he was fixing an AA member's vehicle, he
BURY Driving Test Centre opened its doors today in a bid to make prospective drivers more relaxed about the new test. And guests of honour at the test centre in Smith Street was local MP David Chaytor and Bury's Mayor, Cllr Roy Walker. Senior driving
SERVICES to help patients discharged from hospital have been given a £72,000 boost by the Government. The cash is part of a massive £300,000 grant awarded to Wigan and Bolton health authority from the Community Care Challenge Funding. It means that Bolton
THE power of the BEN has astounded a former Bolton man who appealed through its pages for long lost friends and family to get in touch. Fred Coucill, who emigrated to South Australia from Bolton, contacted the BEN in March to help him in his quest. As
TOUGH talking council chiefs are set to sting motorists who overstay their welcome at a town centre car park. They want to make sure that the car park at the re-vamped Bolton market at Ashburner Street is only used by people who shop there. So anyone,
who have no choice By Angela Warhurst It's one of the most challenging, time consuming exhausting jobs on earth, yet there's no pay, little thanks and even less recognition. In Bolton there are 26,000 of them and day after day they get on with their work
GUDNI Bergsson will reclaim the record as his country's most capped player when he captains Iceland in tomorrow's World Cup qualifier in Macedonia. The Wanderers skipper will win his 73rd cap in the Group 8 game, edging ahead for the second time in his
MARK Patterson was heading back to his native Lancashire today after agreeing a £200,000 transfer from Sheffield United to Burnley. The 31-year-old former Wanderers midfielder was having a medical at Turf Moor before completing a move which will give
